ArticleJournal of experimental child psychology2022
Two-year-olds use past memories to accomplish novel goals.
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- Inhibitory control and memory guided planning during early childhood.Cognitive processing · 2025Article
- No effect of napping on episodic foresight and prospective memory in kindergarten children.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- Can 18-Month-Olds Revise Attributed Beliefs?Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Memory-guided planning involves retrieving relevant memories and applying that information in service of a goal. Previous studies have shown substantial development in this ability from 3 to 4 years of age. We investigated the emergence of memory-guided planning by asking whether 2-year-olds could draw on episodic memories of past experiences to generate and execute plans. In Experiments 1 and 2 (N = 32, ds > .7), 2-year-olds successfully did so, and this ability developed significantly across the third year of life. Furthermore, in Experiment 3 (N = 19, d = 0.63), 2-year-olds successfully applied episodic memories to guide plans in a novel problem context, suggesting flexibility in this ability. Together, these results suggest that some form of memory-guided planning emerges during the third year of life and may form the cognitive basis for episodic prospection later in development.
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